Mushrooms span the spectrum from divine beauty to evil pestilence. This one, Phyllotopsis nidulans,
might seem to belong among the divine, but appearances can be deceiving. In person it smells of stinky
tube socks that you forgot in the bottom of your workout bag such that they became even stinkier than
the stinkiest socks known to science. Then again, beauty can be enhanced by a bit of a dark side.